RECOVERY
Germany: Dual System establishes new licence structure for green dot
The Supervisory Board of Duales System Deutschland GmbH (DSD, Frankfurter Str. 720-726, D-51145 Köln) has voted in favour of a new licence fee structure for the green dot, as a result of which the fee charged in future for the individual material fractions will consist of a weight-related fee and a basic fee which is based on the number of items sold and their respective volumes. This calculation concept takes account of the actual disposal costs incurred for the different materials and the varying degree of licensing of the individual material fractions. The basic fee will help to compensate for the much higher sorting and handling costs for small packages in particular. Wolfram Brück, Chairman of the Board of Directors comments: "The new licence structure will provide an even greater incentive to reduce and ecologically optimize packaging materials."
Based on the new scale of fees, the Dual System expects a revenue of slightly more than DM 3.9bn in 1995. This amount is much lower than the receipts and expenditure volume of DM 4.2bn originally planned for 1994 on the basis of the currently valid scale of fees. This clearly shows that the Dual System has been able to reduce costs dramatically by changing the disposal contracts. Based on these newly negotiated disposal contracts, this amount will be used in the second half of 1995 to finance the collection, sorting and recycling of a quantity of material which is about 40% higher than the value given in the 1993 material mass flow verification.
While sorted packaging was made available to Dual System recyclers at no charge in the past (so-called "zero" interface), market mechanisms will be promoted to a greater extent in the future. Up to now, the sale of secondary raw materials at a fair market price was practically ruled out. However, the Dual System no longer intends to hand out secondary raw materials free of charge. This is a request to all material manufacturers to pay the normal price for their secondary raw materials. In return, the Dual System will give the material manufacturers a firm assurance that, if they agree to pay for recyclable waste materials, the weight-related fee for the green dot will be reduced accordingly by subtracting these payments. The material manufacturers will therefore be required to accept greater responsibility for their materials in future.
Based on the new scale of fees, the Dual System expects a revenue of slightly more than DM 3.9bn in 1995. This amount is much lower than the receipts and expenditure volume of DM 4.2bn originally planned for 1994 on the basis of the currently valid scale of fees. This clearly shows that the Dual System has been able to reduce costs dramatically by changing the disposal contracts. Based on these newly negotiated disposal contracts, this amount will be used in the second half of 1995 to finance the collection, sorting and recycling of a quantity of material which is about 40% higher than the value given in the 1993 material mass flow verification.
While sorted packaging was made available to Dual System recyclers at no charge in the past (so-called "zero" interface), market mechanisms will be promoted to a greater extent in the future. Up to now, the sale of secondary raw materials at a fair market price was practically ruled out. However, the Dual System no longer intends to hand out secondary raw materials free of charge. This is a request to all material manufacturers to pay the normal price for their secondary raw materials. In return, the Dual System will give the material manufacturers a firm assurance that, if they agree to pay for recyclable waste materials, the weight-related fee for the green dot will be reduced accordingly by subtracting these payments. The material manufacturers will therefore be required to accept greater responsibility for their materials in future.
30.04.1994 Plasteurope.com [21432]
Published on 30.04.1994